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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: CHAROPINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> [unassigned] Helicina (Infraorder)
> Punctoidea (Superfamily)
> Charopidae (Family)
> Charopinae (Subfamily)
> Chaureopa (Genus)
> mossi (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Flammulina (Allodiscus) mossi R. Murdoch, 1897
Images: Chaureopa mossi (R. Murdoch, 1897)
Collected Toko, E of Stratford, New Zealand. (M.125138). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Toko, E of Stratford, New Zealand. (M.125138). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Toko, E of Stratford, New Zealand. (M.125138). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: CHAROPINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> [unassigned] Helicina (Infraorder)
> Punctoidea (Superfamily)
> Charopidae (Family)
> Charopinae (Subfamily)
> Chaureopa (Genus)
> mossi (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Flammulina (Allodiscus) mossi R. Murdoch, 1897
Details: Chaureopa mossi (R. Murdoch, 1897)
Size/Grows to:
Width 5.0mm, Height 2.8mm
Distribution:
North and South Island
Type Data:
  • Toko, E of Stratford, SE of New Plymouth, NZ, (lectotype of Flammulina mossi R. Murdoch, 1897)
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.320)
  • Murdoch, R. 1897 Descriptions of new species of Endodonta and Flammulina from New Zealand, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 2 (p.162) Original Description

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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